My ears perked up right away when one of the sponsors joked that she could always tell what Mary was cooking, from the delicious smells greeting her in the hallway of the building where they both live.

With a client who is about to launch her own food blog, and ever the marketer, I was anxious to learn all I could about the reading habits of this scratch cook. Imagine my surprise when I asked Mary if she read any food blogs, and she replied, “I write one!”.

One thing led to another, and I learned that Mary not only writes a food blog, she writes one whose popularity is growing like a weed.

Well, that did it. I had to learn what secret ingredient besides “love” helped Mary’s blog, “Love, the Secret Ingredient” rocket to the top tier of a crowded niche in under 2 years. So I decided to interview Mary and her team, and find out how they did it.

Do you know what I learned, fellow bloggers?

Plan the work, and work the plan … and that’s it! (Well, maybe there’s a little more to it than that … the secret ingredient IS love, as a matter of fact).

You can read more about how Mary and her team did it, over at Forbes.com, in my post entitled

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About Rhonda Hurwitz

Rhonda Hurwitz is a content strategist and marketing consultant who helps mid-sized businesses develop more effective online strategies. @rhondahurwitz on Twitter, and on Forbes.com: http://blogs.forbes.com/people/rhondahurwitz/